On this day: November 9

POSTED: 07:01 PM PST Nov 08, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Nov 08, 2012 

Pilgrims on the Mayflower spot land, Jack the Ripper kills for the last time, the PGA integrates, Rolling Stone magazine debuts, and the Berlin Wall begins to fall, all on this day.

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1918: Having lost the support of his army, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II announces he would abdicate, becoming the last German emperor. He then flees into exile in the Netherlands.

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